The Adventures Dark and Deep™ Game Masters Toolkit contains rules for weather and other natural hazards, generating NPC characteristics, magic items, travel to other planes, deities and religions, and much more. It also includes scores of random tables covering everything from "what color is it?" to "why are the humanoids raiding the village?"

The Game Masters Toolkit is the third core rulebook for the Adventures Dark and Deep™ game, an expansion and revision of the original 1st Edition rules that defined the role-playing hobby for a decade. Based on the original plans for expanding the game, Adventures Dark and Deep™ gives you new character classes like the jester, savant, mystic, and mountebank; new spells; a new combat system; new monsters; rules for weather and natural hazards; new magic items, and tons more. And it's all compatible with most old-school games, so you can use it with all your old and new adventures, settings, and supplements.

My bundle just arrived today :) Hardcover Bestiary, Game Master Toolkit, and Players Manual!
Can't wait to browse it all tomorrow, I've already been reading the PDFs included in the deluxe bundle but there's nothing like a proper book, thanks!

Brett GAugust 30, 2015 2:44 am UTC

Question: Does it come with a printer friendly copy or the ability to turn off the background layer?

Joseph BAugust 30, 2015 3:46 am UTC

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There is no background layer to turn off, so it should be quite printer-friendly as-is.

Joseph Bloch poses the question, "What if Gary Gygax had not left TSR in 1985, and had been allowed to continue developing the world's most famous fantasy role-playing game?" Adventures Dark and Deep is a possible answer to that question. [...]

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